The heartbreaking reason why Emma Thompson won't be apart of Love Actually reunion

Publish Date
Saturday, 25 February 2017, 11:29AM

Emma Thompson won't be involved in the upcoming Love Actually reunion, for a sad reason.

Many of the other cast members had last week gotten together to film a mini-movie for Red Nose Day, a biennial U.K. telethon to raise money for the Comic Relief charity, which helps impoverished children and their families.

In Richard Curtis' 2003 film Love Actually, Thompson and Alan Rickman, played a husband and wife whose marriage is strained by his romantic feelings towards another woman. 

Rickman died at age 69 last year after a cancer battle.

"Richard wrote to me and said, 'Darling, we can't write anything for you because of Alan,' and I said, 'No of course, it would be sad, too sad.'" Thompson told the Press Association.

"It's too soon. It's absolutely right because it's supposed to be for Comic Relief but there isn't much comic relief in the loss of our dear friend really only just over a year ago," she said. 

"We thought and thought but it just seemed wrong but to revisit the wonderful fun characters of Bill Nighy and Hugh Grant and Liam (Neeson) and all of that, that's fantastic but obviously what would he have done? Both of them would be in therapy by now and I would be working on some kind of ward. It was absolutely the right decision."

Director Curtis told the Press Association that Rickman's character would be featured in any way.

"You know dealing with Alan is very complicated, so not really," he said. "We're not [involving] everyone. We're doing about two thirds of people."



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